Exam Details

Subject
Paper
Exam / Course mains
Department
Organization Haryana Public Service Commission
Position public administration
Exam Date 2010
City, State haryana,


Question Paper

Code -19


Time: 3 Hours
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Maximum Marks: 150 Note :'Attempt FIVE questions in all. All questions carry equal marks. Question No.1 is compulsory. Answer two questions fro.Q1 Part and two questions from Part -II. The parts of same question must be answered together and must notbe interposed
between answers to other questions.
1. Write notes on any four ofthe rollowing
x 7.5 30) "Organisation is a system ofconsciously coordinated activities or forces oftwo or more persons."
" Public and Private Administrations are the two species of the same genus, but they also h'.lve special values and techniques of their own."
"Truly comparative administrative studies are empirical,
nomothetic and ecological." In this perspective, examine the
CUlTent status of Comparative Public Administration.
"The rise ofPrime Minister's Secretariat and the Cabinet Secretariat in India during the past three decades is an indication of the growing centralisation ofpolicy and
decisional authority in the position of the Prime Minister."
Examine.
'Citizen's charter' is the most important innovation in the context ofpromotion of Cllstomer-orientation of Administration". Discuss.
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"Though India emerged as a sovereign state after independence,
the administrative system remained the same as was during the
British Period".

PART-I
2.
Trace the origin of Ombudsman in India and comment on its working.

3.
"All policy-making is decision-making, but all decision ­making is not policy-making". Elaborate. How does a policy emanate and what course does policy-making in government follow?

4.
Critically examine the model of Max Weber and Chester I

Barnard with reference to 'bureaucratic authority'. PART-Il

5.
"In the Chief Secretary, the State Government has an officer whose counterpart does not obtain in the Union Government." Elucidate.


6 Criticallv comment on Rig:gsian Prismatic Sala model of
-'-'­administration ofdeveloping societies. To what extent Indian
administrative system exhibits prismatic characteristics?(30)
7. Discuss the major problems of management and working of Public Sector Undertakings in India .Give suggestions in the light of liberalization policy to improve their perfom1ance.

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